David is the Executive Director of the Office of Information Technology at Boise State University. Been in Techie business in the last 25 years, but has moved up in the ranks.

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*Background

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**CTO of the University

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**Responsibility for all technologies on campus

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**Oversees several units including mail room, presses, traditional IT systems, student labs, help desk, database administrators, system administrators, telecom (VOIP, video and data); not an I2 school

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**Collaborating w/ other institutions in the state and Idaho National Lab to build a research network to make it a backbone for the state

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***Would like it to be a collaboration between a lot of entities (libs, state agencies, higher ed (4 year schools), etc.)

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***Has created a draft architecture, including a Gigapop

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**Partnered with the University of Idaho

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**Wants to have a Idaho Gigapop that will be used by all the universities in Idaho (labs cover ½ of the $1,000,000 expense. Trying to raise the other ½). The gigapop will be in Boise along I-84 where I2, Level3 and NLR run fiber along

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**Wants to connect libraries throughout the state

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**Lots of Unlit fiber

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*Broadband deployment

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**Poor

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**No success rate in broadband deployment and has sat on boards w/ other agencies and they can’t get past the definition of broadband

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**Access to the Internet

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***But it is dependent on the context and where it is available

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**Believes that connection speed is contextual

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*Barriers

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**It is not architected with the small communities in mind

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**There is no planned out state architecture—needs someone to bring people together and plan

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*Success

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**Individual initiative has led to deployment

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**They pride themselves in entrepreneurial in nature

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**They went out, formed a plan and deployed

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**Limited success and great failures

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***Lack of planning led to failure---trying to sell services not possible

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***Exclusion to key players

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*Where do libraries fall?

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**Partners and contributors

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**Few can take the lead much beyond their own play box

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**Great visibility—can show great return

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**But have not been considered very much

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***Rarely have they been at the table

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**Believes that the number of patrons match or exceed the usage at the public libraries

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*B&M Gates Interventions

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**Come up with a good plan that represents all of the major players

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***What is the vision? What is the plan?

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***lots of people w/ vision, but needs to become a documented in a workable plan to bring together these plans

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**Provide seed money

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==Representative Durst==

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Representative Durst serves on the ITRMC council for the house of representatives in ID.

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*Broadband Deployment

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**Poor deployment

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**Missed several opportunities

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**They have not spent money well

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**Outside of the urban areas, it is dysfunctional—needs to be more efficient

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**4 on a scale of 1 to 10

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*Vision for Deployment

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**State—no plan

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**His vision

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***First step is to have somebody in a position to move the deployment forward (having a state CIO, who has the ability to make decisions for the state)

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***Next, formulate a plan to allocate broadband throughout the state

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****Some constraints and obstacles

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*Where do libraries fit in?

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**Serve as catalyst to get access to the Internet---a place to go

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**All communities have a library; they need a place to go

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**Don’t like to wait

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*What have they done to promote broadband?

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**$5 million for rural broadband—not used well; was used to increase deployment in areas and they used it in places where it already existed

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**ITD used money w/out concern for other agencies

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**Lamda Rail—figuring out how research institutions can use this resource

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**Broadband Tax incentive-not sure if it is the way to go or not; the way he understands this will work is a user fee

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*Barriers

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**Working w/ ITRMC

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***Wants to create a report to study broadband allocation from the state agency perspective

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***Get a greater grasp of what the state of things are and where they are going

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***Get the Governor onboard

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**Lack of attention drawn to broadband

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**Backwoods mentality that we need to get over

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***From his perspective, ID has not done the best job at being proactive at overcoming their barriers

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***People see broadband as a want and not a need

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*B&M Gates Interventions

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**Increasing access to the infrastructure (helping to fund that)

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**Important to have an education campaign to increase awareness of the niche that libraries fill

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==Senator Bastion==

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Senator Stan Bastion is the Senate member of ITRMC, a city council member and liason to the local library.

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*Broadband

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**Need to do more to make it available

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**Broadband to the home

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**High interest in Qwest to increase fiber deployment

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***Has called a meeting w/ mayors

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***Senator would like to see libraries get connected via this fiber

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**Successful in urban areas

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***But this success is no as powerful as Fiber to the Home

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**In rural communities, there is less

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***High cost

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***Trying to get it to schools

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*State Policies

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**Sees TX as a model with uniform video franchise fee (sees this an incentive for deployment)

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**Would like to ITRMC adop uniform standards that include fiber to the communities

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**Thought the $5 million matching was good

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***Additional funding could help in that area (maybe Gates could match)

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*Interventions

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**Provide for public/private partnerships

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***Matching funds to increase deployment

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**Increase fiber deployment

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***Establish group of providers to build a network (possibly owned by the state; used analogy of an airport)

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***Then charge a fee for carriers to use

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**ITRMC can establish standards

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==ITRMC==

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The Information Technology Resource Management Council (ITRMC) is a council made of people who make strategic decisions in regards to how the state agency manages information technology. In a way, it serves as the state CIO by committee. This is an interview w/ its staff.

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*Background

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**16 member council formed in 1996

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**Headed up by the Department of Administration

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***Includes many departments and stakeholders

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**Sets State IT Policy and strategy (but has not regulatory authority

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**State does not have a CIO

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**Lack authority to force adoption of its recommendations

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**Has a small staff to assist council, including in web and telecommunications services

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*Broadband

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**Internal to state

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**Hodge podge, with no one to take the leadership and coordination

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***ITRMC trying to take this position

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**Vision-Bring people together to find ways to aggreagate demand

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***There is a lack of coordingation to bring people together

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*What is ITRMC doing?

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**Telecom summit to bring people together to talk about telecom and broadband

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***Mapping out who to bring to the table

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****If too big of a group, there will be to many to bring to a consensus

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****Trying to set scope and boundaries; otherwise no good outcome

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*Who are the players?

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**Science and Tech Advisory council

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**Health quality planning

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**Education

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**Idaho national labs

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***Trying to build Research and education network

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*Challenges

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**Defining broadband

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**Getting a community to speak w/ a unified voice

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***They talk a lot but don’t ever get anywhere

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*State Networks

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**IDANET

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***Successful but to a point

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***Never realized their full potential because of split

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***Political baggage

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**Transportation, Public Safety and Military has an effort underway

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***They tried to work w/ IDANET but have sense split

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**No Focused leadership

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*State Policy

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**Tax incentive was successful for broadband deployment

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***Grew around 200% w/ incentive (was top state for a while and attributes this to the tax incentive

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**$5 Million matching grant Accelerated business plans for deployment

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***Has helped 80 communities

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*Studies

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**Regional from Clearwater area

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**National Labs

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***MB Note: guy gave me study

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*B&M Gates Interventions

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**Sponsor a study to see what is available

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**Find a way to incent carriers to deploy to communities

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**Still wrestling w/ other ideas

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==State Supreme Court==

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John R. Peay is the Director of Information Systems at the Idaho Supreme Court

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*Broadband Deployment

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**1990 agencies came together to discuss the need to grow together for economic development

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**Revised agenda in 1994

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**Then they formed ITMRC to foster collaboration and set state standards

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**Strategy of the state

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***Have private industry extend broadband throughout the state

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****Impeded by geography

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****However, court need fiber capacity delivered to court house in every state

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*****Therefore, partnered with Dept. of Transportation (ITD) for rights away

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****Driven to deploy for economic development

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****Sidestepped because of Y2K

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****Has been able to deploy fiber

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*****With partnership s w/ Tranportation and Juvenile Courts

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*****Has MoU ITD provides technology; Courts helped pay for switches

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*How Libraries fit into agenda

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**Problem is in the last mile

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**ITD, Police, Corrections and Health are well off (they partner)

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**Aggregation study was published in 1999, which included libraries

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***Not well receivd

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**Tension among various stakehoulders

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**Everyone keeps to themselves

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***Higher Ed, and K12 ignore ITERMC standards

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**State interaction w/ local gov’t is prickly (not good)

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***Cities form a powerful lobby

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**Lack of deployment not totally a technical one->conservative government that is close with their money

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**Libraries have no champion

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*Success Factors

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**Partnership w/ ITD (for courts)

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**Supreme court has some authority over local courts and government

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**Made effort to partner with counties (unique for a state agency)

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***Got some funding to help build broadband with state support

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*Barriers

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**Financial

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**Independence

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***Put in computer system to connect all the courts, but courts wanted independence from state gov’t

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****Interesting note: now local courts want to be tied in with the state

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*B&M Gates Interventions

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**Raise public awareness as to the value of libraries

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***Partnering with schools to show ed value

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**No funds from legislature in 10 year to help b/c of champions

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**Right now there is a big push in the state for community colleges

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***Possible latching on to this campaign

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**Ideas to get infrastructure to counties is there, but connection to libraries is needed

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**Technical help

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**Funding is key…assistance to libraries to get funding

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==David O’Neill==

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David is the Executive Director of the Office of Information Technology at Boise State University. Been in Techie business in the last 25 years, but has moved up in the ranks.

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*Background

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**CTO of the University

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**Responsibility for all technologies on campus

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**Oversees several units including mail room, presses, traditional IT systems, student labs, help desk, database administrators, system administrators, telecom (VOIP, video and data); not an I2 school

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**Collaborating w/ other institutions in the state and Idaho National Lab to build a research network to make it a backbone for the state

+

***Would like it to be a collaboration between a lot of entities (libs, state agencies, higher ed (4 year schools), etc.)

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***Has created a draft architecture, including a Gigapop

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**Partnered with the University of Idaho

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**Wants to have a Idaho Gigapop that will be used by all the universities in Idaho (labs cover ½ of the $1,000,000 expense. Trying to raise the other ½). The gigapop will be in Boise along I-84 where I2, Level3 and NLR run fiber along

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**Wants to connect libraries throughout the state

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**Lots of Unlit fiber

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*Broadband deployment

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**Poor

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**No success rate in broadband deployment and has sat on boards w/ other agencies and they can’t get past the definition of broadband

+

**Access to the Internet

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***But it is dependent on the context and where it is available

+

**Believes that connection speed is contextual

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*Barriers

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**It is not architected with the small communities in mind

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**There is no planned out state architecture—needs someone to bring people together and plan

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*Success

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**Individual initiative has led to deployment

+

**They pride themselves in entrepreneurial in nature

+

**They went out, formed a plan and deployed

+

**Limited success and great failures

+

***Lack of planning led to failure---trying to sell services not possible

+

***Exclusion to key players

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*Where do libraries fall?

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**Partners and contributors

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**Few can take the lead much beyond their own play box

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**Great visibility—can show great return

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**But have not been considered very much

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***Rarely have they been at the table

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**Believes that the number of patrons match or exceed the usage at the public libraries

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*B&M Gates Interventions

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**Come up with a good plan that represents all of the major players

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***What is the vision? What is the plan?

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***lots of people w/ vision, but needs to become a documented in a workable plan to bring together these plans

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**Provide seed money

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==Keith Johnson==

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Keith is the director of the department of administration. He is the chairmen of the technology council. Basically, he is the state CIO (ITMRC is reportable to him). Has a relationship with many telecommunications companies. Keith was the elected state controller and just started as the director of the admin.

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*Broadband

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**Within metro areas it’s pretty good

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**In rural areas, it has quite a way to go (it’s a challenge to get them into their communities)

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*Factors of Success

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**Motivation and market demand

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***Economic development associated with broadband

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**Legislature sees the need to improve access

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**Telcos that is responsible wants to do it, but it must be economically viable

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**Strong High-tech component in Idaho to drive innovation

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**Well-trained workforce to deploy these resources

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*Barriers

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**Geographic

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***Mountains

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***Large state

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****Many miles between citites

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***Makes it difficult to get technology in place

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**Lots of small communities

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**Easy to deploy in flat areas, but difficult in others

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*Success

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**Scale of 1-10 5 or 7

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*Vision

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**Not been a strong cohesive strategy @ the state level

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**Multiple and competing visions

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***Those w/ vision need to work together

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***Going to require state Government (through the governor) to bring competing interests together

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****Military, state agencies

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***Governor has an indirect approach…concerned and has other people looking into it

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****To drive education and economic development

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*What steps has government taken?

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**Former Governor created a couple of councils to meet and tasked with the mission

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***Wants to elevate the position of these councils b/c they have been buried far down into

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**ITRMC wants to be increase their influence and have federated CIO

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*Previous programs

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**Tax incentives and matching grants need to be addressed on a case by case basis

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**Sees some matching grants coming up in the future

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*Where do libraries fit in?

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**They are a critical component of a consumer’s access to information

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**Government is not a replacement to what private sector can do

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**Thinks people will be reluctant to go to library (compares it to public transportation)

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**Libraries may be a place

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**Certain demand out there for libraries, but demand comes in personal access to information

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**Would not be underutilized at the library

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*IDANET

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**Has the potential of being a large player

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**Lack of coordinated effort by the agency levels to maximize the potential

+

**Needs to make choices as to how we will allocate resources

+

**Department of Administration negotiates the contracts and billing

+

*ITD Network

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**Some talks with the merging of the two merger

+

***Wants to push for the discussion of the Issue

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*ITMRC

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**Technically responsible for setting standards

+

**Operating in a decentralized stove piped fashion

+

**That means they are not taking adv. Of enterprise IT planning and resources

+

**Individual email servers (80) duplicated throughout the agencies

+

***Getting agencies to understand how they can save money is a political reason

+

*B & M Gates interventions

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**Enormous amount of credibility associated w/ Bill Gates

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***Well received in Idaho

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***Would like recommendations on how other states are getting stuff done

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***Would recommend input

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**Level of education that needs to take place inside and outside of government

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***Positive and negative benefits of broadband

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**Continue to work w/ councils and policy makers on deployment

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***All competing for $$$ to provide capacity

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***Anything we can do to increase resources

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**Grants and Incentives Programs

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==State Library IT Staff==

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*State of broadband

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**They interact w/ libraries but they do not go out in the field to discuss connectivity

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*Barriers

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**Geology and remoteness of cities, etc.

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**Financial barriers—funding is an issue

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**Some still using dial-up

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*State of broadband

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**State is at the tail end of technology

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**Where you are geographically

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**70% of population in urban—with a lot of competition

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**Not on the Interstate, not sure if they will be connectivity

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**Limited providers

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**Starting to use Verizon Cards in some of the laptops from the state library

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**Ask telcos what is available

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***The libraries will call and ask

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***Vendor as advisor is not a good model

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***A lot of vapor selling

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***A lot of talk of what can be done and inability to talk w/ stakeholders

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**Thinks it’s too bad that state libraries don’t have staff to go and talk w/ libraries

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***Would be nice to have someone go out and help them

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***Most libraries don’t have a IT staff of any kind

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**No one to support libraries locally

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**Having a mobile force would be best

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***Not necessarily just for libraries—form a cooperative with other people

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***But some agencies may not want to have outsiders working w/ their computers

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**Difficulty in passing libraries bonds

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**Idaho is stingy—doesn’t realize you need to spend money to make money

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*Solutions & Problems

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**Economic Development for the whole state

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**Don’t want to create a technology welfare state

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**Have IT structure in place over time

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***Teach them to fix their own computers

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**Push to have technology level @ consortium level

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**One solution is that if the library set up a tower, they could get broadband

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**Stressing that libraries could be the place of access

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***Have positive light for libraries

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*One thing Idaho does well is promoting the value of libraries

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*B & M Gates Interventions

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**Marketing—Increase advocacy and doesn’t realize the value of libraries

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**Need to change perception of libraries—Not books, but access to information & technology

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***If no broadband, shows value and grassroots activities

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***Create & show demand

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**Education of librarians

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***Not just librarians, but educating the public as to the value of the library

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***Targeting kids w/ education of the libraries; shows value

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**Mobile Tech support & Training people

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***Lots of turnover

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*IDANET

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**A good system, but drawback is that there are several points of contact to get set-up

Keith is the director of the department of administration. He is the chairmen of the technology council. Basically, he is the state CIO (ITMRC is reportable to him). Has a relationship with many telecommunications companies. Keith was the elected state controller and just started as the director of the admin.

Broadband

Within metro areas it’s pretty good

In rural areas, it has quite a way to go (it’s a challenge to get them into their communities)

Factors of Success

Motivation and market demand

Economic development associated with broadband

Legislature sees the need to improve access

Telcos that is responsible wants to do it, but it must be economically viable

Strong High-tech component in Idaho to drive innovation

Well-trained workforce to deploy these resources

Barriers

Geographic

Mountains

Large state

Many miles between citites

Makes it difficult to get technology in place

Lots of small communities

Easy to deploy in flat areas, but difficult in others

Success

Scale of 1-10 5 or 7

Vision

Not been a strong cohesive strategy @ the state level

Multiple and competing visions

Those w/ vision need to work together

Going to require state Government (through the governor) to bring competing interests together

Military, state agencies

Governor has an indirect approach…concerned and has other people looking into it

To drive education and economic development

What steps has government taken?

Former Governor created a couple of councils to meet and tasked with the mission

Wants to elevate the position of these councils b/c they have been buried far down into

ITRMC wants to be increase their influence and have federated CIO

Previous programs

Tax incentives and matching grants need to be addressed on a case by case basis

Sees some matching grants coming up in the future

Where do libraries fit in?

They are a critical component of a consumer’s access to information

Government is not a replacement to what private sector can do

Thinks people will be reluctant to go to library (compares it to public transportation)

Libraries may be a place

Certain demand out there for libraries, but demand comes in personal access to information

Would not be underutilized at the library

IDANET

Has the potential of being a large player

Lack of coordinated effort by the agency levels to maximize the potential

Needs to make choices as to how we will allocate resources

Department of Administration negotiates the contracts and billing

ITD Network

Some talks with the merging of the two merger

Wants to push for the discussion of the Issue

ITMRC

Technically responsible for setting standards

Operating in a decentralized stove piped fashion

That means they are not taking adv. Of enterprise IT planning and resources

Individual email servers (80) duplicated throughout the agencies

Getting agencies to understand how they can save money is a political reason

B & M Gates interventions

Enormous amount of credibility associated w/ Bill Gates

Well received in Idaho

Would like recommendations on how other states are getting stuff done

Would recommend input

Level of education that needs to take place inside and outside of government

David is the Executive Director of the Office of Information Technology at Boise State University. Been in Techie business in the last 25 years, but has moved up in the ranks.

Background

CTO of the University

Responsibility for all technologies on campus

Oversees several units including mail room, presses, traditional IT systems, student labs, help desk, database administrators, system administrators, telecom (VOIP, video and data); not an I2 school

Collaborating w/ other institutions in the state and Idaho National Lab to build a research network to make it a backbone for the state

Would like it to be a collaboration between a lot of entities (libs, state agencies, higher ed (4 year schools), etc.)

Has created a draft architecture, including a Gigapop

Partnered with the University of Idaho

Wants to have a Idaho Gigapop that will be used by all the universities in Idaho (labs cover ½ of the $1,000,000 expense. Trying to raise the other ½). The gigapop will be in Boise along I-84 where I2, Level3 and NLR run fiber along

Wants to connect libraries throughout the state

Lots of Unlit fiber

Broadband deployment

Poor

No success rate in broadband deployment and has sat on boards w/ other agencies and they can’t get past the definition of broadband

Access to the Internet

But it is dependent on the context and where it is available

Believes that connection speed is contextual

Barriers

It is not architected with the small communities in mind

There is no planned out state architecture—needs someone to bring people together and plan

Success

Individual initiative has led to deployment

They pride themselves in entrepreneurial in nature

They went out, formed a plan and deployed

Limited success and great failures

Lack of planning led to failure---trying to sell services not possible

Exclusion to key players

Where do libraries fall?

Partners and contributors

Few can take the lead much beyond their own play box

Great visibility—can show great return

But have not been considered very much

Rarely have they been at the table

Believes that the number of patrons match or exceed the usage at the public libraries

B&M Gates Interventions

Come up with a good plan that represents all of the major players

What is the vision? What is the plan?

lots of people w/ vision, but needs to become a documented in a workable plan to bring together these plans

The Information Technology Resource Management Council (ITRMC) is a council made of people who make strategic decisions in regards to how the state agency manages information technology. In a way, it serves as the state CIO by committee. This is an interview w/ its staff.

Background

16 member council formed in 1996

Headed up by the Department of Administration

Includes many departments and stakeholders

Sets State IT Policy and strategy (but has not regulatory authority

State does not have a CIO

Lack authority to force adoption of its recommendations

Has a small staff to assist council, including in web and telecommunications services

Broadband

Internal to state

Hodge podge, with no one to take the leadership and coordination

ITRMC trying to take this position

Vision-Bring people together to find ways to aggreagate demand

There is a lack of coordingation to bring people together

What is ITRMC doing?

Telecom summit to bring people together to talk about telecom and broadband

Mapping out who to bring to the table

If too big of a group, there will be to many to bring to a consensus

Trying to set scope and boundaries; otherwise no good outcome

Who are the players?

Science and Tech Advisory council

Health quality planning

Education

Idaho national labs

Trying to build Research and education network

Challenges

Defining broadband

Getting a community to speak w/ a unified voice

They talk a lot but don’t ever get anywhere

State Networks

IDANET

Successful but to a point

Never realized their full potential because of split

Political baggage

Transportation, Public Safety and Military has an effort underway

They tried to work w/ IDANET but have sense split

No Focused leadership

State Policy

Tax incentive was successful for broadband deployment

Grew around 200% w/ incentive (was top state for a while and attributes this to the tax incentive

David is the Executive Director of the Office of Information Technology at Boise State University. Been in Techie business in the last 25 years, but has moved up in the ranks.

Background

CTO of the University

Responsibility for all technologies on campus

Oversees several units including mail room, presses, traditional IT systems, student labs, help desk, database administrators, system administrators, telecom (VOIP, video and data); not an I2 school

Collaborating w/ other institutions in the state and Idaho National Lab to build a research network to make it a backbone for the state

Would like it to be a collaboration between a lot of entities (libs, state agencies, higher ed (4 year schools), etc.)

Has created a draft architecture, including a Gigapop

Partnered with the University of Idaho

Wants to have a Idaho Gigapop that will be used by all the universities in Idaho (labs cover ½ of the $1,000,000 expense. Trying to raise the other ½). The gigapop will be in Boise along I-84 where I2, Level3 and NLR run fiber along

Wants to connect libraries throughout the state

Lots of Unlit fiber

Broadband deployment

Poor

No success rate in broadband deployment and has sat on boards w/ other agencies and they can’t get past the definition of broadband

Access to the Internet

But it is dependent on the context and where it is available

Believes that connection speed is contextual

Barriers

It is not architected with the small communities in mind

There is no planned out state architecture—needs someone to bring people together and plan

Success

Individual initiative has led to deployment

They pride themselves in entrepreneurial in nature

They went out, formed a plan and deployed

Limited success and great failures

Lack of planning led to failure---trying to sell services not possible

Exclusion to key players

Where do libraries fall?

Partners and contributors

Few can take the lead much beyond their own play box

Great visibility—can show great return

But have not been considered very much

Rarely have they been at the table

Believes that the number of patrons match or exceed the usage at the public libraries

B&M Gates Interventions

Come up with a good plan that represents all of the major players

What is the vision? What is the plan?

lots of people w/ vision, but needs to become a documented in a workable plan to bring together these plans

Keith is the director of the department of administration. He is the chairmen of the technology council. Basically, he is the state CIO (ITMRC is reportable to him). Has a relationship with many telecommunications companies. Keith was the elected state controller and just started as the director of the admin.

Broadband

Within metro areas it’s pretty good

In rural areas, it has quite a way to go (it’s a challenge to get them into their communities)

Factors of Success

Motivation and market demand

Economic development associated with broadband

Legislature sees the need to improve access

Telcos that is responsible wants to do it, but it must be economically viable

Strong High-tech component in Idaho to drive innovation

Well-trained workforce to deploy these resources

Barriers

Geographic

Mountains

Large state

Many miles between citites

Makes it difficult to get technology in place

Lots of small communities

Easy to deploy in flat areas, but difficult in others

Success

Scale of 1-10 5 or 7

Vision

Not been a strong cohesive strategy @ the state level

Multiple and competing visions

Those w/ vision need to work together

Going to require state Government (through the governor) to bring competing interests together

Military, state agencies

Governor has an indirect approach…concerned and has other people looking into it

To drive education and economic development

What steps has government taken?

Former Governor created a couple of councils to meet and tasked with the mission

Wants to elevate the position of these councils b/c they have been buried far down into

ITRMC wants to be increase their influence and have federated CIO

Previous programs

Tax incentives and matching grants need to be addressed on a case by case basis

Sees some matching grants coming up in the future

Where do libraries fit in?

They are a critical component of a consumer’s access to information

Government is not a replacement to what private sector can do

Thinks people will be reluctant to go to library (compares it to public transportation)

Libraries may be a place

Certain demand out there for libraries, but demand comes in personal access to information

Would not be underutilized at the library

IDANET

Has the potential of being a large player

Lack of coordinated effort by the agency levels to maximize the potential

Needs to make choices as to how we will allocate resources

Department of Administration negotiates the contracts and billing

ITD Network

Some talks with the merging of the two merger

Wants to push for the discussion of the Issue

ITMRC

Technically responsible for setting standards

Operating in a decentralized stove piped fashion

That means they are not taking adv. Of enterprise IT planning and resources

Individual email servers (80) duplicated throughout the agencies

Getting agencies to understand how they can save money is a political reason

B & M Gates interventions

Enormous amount of credibility associated w/ Bill Gates

Well received in Idaho

Would like recommendations on how other states are getting stuff done

Would recommend input

Level of education that needs to take place inside and outside of government